|
|
|
|
See my other projects: weather, dict, payphones, mailboxes, receipts, found photos, court documents, what is my ip?, and more at sorabji.com.
Alkali
AL'KALI, n. plu. Alkalies
In chimistry, a term applied to all bodies which possess the following properties:
1. a caustic taste;
2. volatilizable by heat;
3. capability of combining with acids, and of destroying their acidity;
4. solubility in water, even when combined with carbonic acid;
5. capability of converting vegetable blues to green.
The term was formerly confined to three substances:
1. potash or vegetable fixed alkali, generally obtained from the ashes of wood;
2. soda or mineral fixed alkali, which is found in the earth and procured from marine plants; and
3. ammonia or volatile alkali, an animal product.
Modern chimistry has discovered many new substances to which the term is now extended.
The alkalies were formerly considered as elementary substances; but it is now ascertained that they are all compounds.
The alkalies are used in the manufacture of glass and soap, in bleaching and in medicine.
alkali appears in definitions for these words:
Aceetate Acid Adiaphorous Affinity Alkalescency Alkalescent Alkali Alkalify Alkaligenous Alkalimeter Alkaline Alkalinity Alkalizate Alkalization Alkalize Ammony Anatron Antacid Antiacid Arum Atropia Azote Azotite Barilla Base Boil Borax Brucia Carburet Carmine Causticity Clay Cobalt Correct Corrective Corrector Deliquesce Delphia Earth Ebullition Flux For Frit Glass Hepar Hepatic Hermetic Hydrosulphuret Hydroxanthic Hyosciama Incrassate Intermediate Kali Kelp Kermes-mineral Lea Lie Lithia Liverstone Lixivial Lixiviation Lixivious Lixivium Lye Metal Metalloid Morphia Natron Nephritic Nephritical Neutral Neutralize Pearl-wort Petalite Phosphate Platinum Potash Potassa Potassium Potential Precipitate Resolve Salifiable Salify Salt Saponaceous Saponify Saturate Saturation Soap Soda Sodalite Specifical Strife Strychnia Sulphuret Tartaric Testing Vegeto-animal Veratria Vitrifaction Vitrifiable Vitrify Volalkali
Aceetate Acid Adiaphorous Affinity Alkalescency Alkalescent Alkali Alkalify Alkaligenous Alkalimeter Alkaline Alkalinity Alkalizate Alkalization Alkalize Ammony Anatron Antacid Antiacid Arum Atropia Azote Azotite Barilla Base Boil Borax Brucia Carburet Carmine Causticity Clay Cobalt Correct Corrective Corrector Deliquesce Delphia Earth Ebullition Flux For Frit Glass Hepar Hepatic Hermetic Hydrosulphuret Hydroxanthic Hyosciama Incrassate Intermediate Kali Kelp Kermes-mineral Lea Lie Lithia Liverstone Lixivial Lixiviation Lixivious Lixivium Lye Metal Metalloid Morphia Natron Nephritic Nephritical Neutral Neutralize Pearl-wort Petalite Phosphate Platinum Potash Potassa Potassium Potential Precipitate Resolve Salifiable Salify Salt Saponaceous Saponify Saturate Saturation Soap Soda Sodalite Specifical Strife Strychnia Sulphuret Tartaric Testing Vegeto-animal Veratria Vitrifaction Vitrifiable Vitrify Volalkali
|
